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Mar 26 Latest round-up of news, reviews & upcoming workshops out now

Catch up on all the latest news in our bumper autumn edition of Elements:

Cochrane Australia e-news March 2024

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Updated #CochraneReview examines the effectiveness and safety of #moxibustion on changing the presentation of an unborn baby in the #breech position.

This updated review includes 13 studies (2181 women)

Read the full review here:https://doi.org/10

We are excited to announce that our Editor-in-chief, Karla Soares-Weiser, will be joining the #CochraneLondon programme! She will be speaking at a plenary, hosting a special session about
@cochraneorg history, and more!
📷https://buff.ly/426uqo0

Cochrane Podcast: There's increasing recognition of the importance of involving patients and the public in decision making about health services and a growing body of relevant research. In March 2023, we published a new qualitative evidence synthesis

Individual‐level interventions for reducing occupational #stress in #healthcare workers.

Healthcare workers can suffer from work‐related stress as a result of an imbalance of demands, skills and social support at work. This may lead to stress, #burn

The Australian Living Evidence Consortium (#ALEC), the Australian College of Midwives (ACM) and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (#RANZCOG) today announced they have been awarded a tender by the Austral

Can medications like #varenicline and #cytisine (nicotine receptor partial agonists) help people to stop #smoking and do they cause unwanted effects?

🔎 Updated systematic review looks at the evidence from 75 trials. https://buff.ly/3nv2LhJ

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Simplify your search for trial information with CENTRAL! Cochrane Central Register of Control Trials is a concentrated and searchable database of randomized control trials metadata. 📷 Try a search here: https://buff.ly/3VnqtZR

Cochrane Clinical Vignettes Project Aims to Support Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Clinical Practice

Cochrane France is dedicated to promoting evidence-informed decision-making and practice. To support this mission, Cochrane France has launched a

A new Cochrane review has found that stool transplants are more effective than #antibiotics for treating recurring life-threatening #gut #infections.

This #SystematicReview looked at the evidence from 6 clinical trials with 320 adults.

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Updated review assesses the effectiveness of #cranberry products in preventing #UTIs.

For this update 26 new studies were added, bringing the total number of included studies to 50 involving 8,857 participants.

Here's what they found: https://buf

👶 New #cochranereview evaluates the benefits and harms of #opioids in term or preterm #neonates exposed to procedural pain, compared to placebo or no drug, non‐pharmacological intervention, other analgesics or sedatives, other opioids, or the same o

❓Which medicines are best for treatment of lower back pain in adults?

This Cochrane overview summarises evidence from seven reviews that included 103 studies.

https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD013815.pub2
#BackPain

#breastcancer is the most common cancer in women. Diagnosis and treatment may drastically affect quality of life, causing symptoms such as sleep disorders, #depression and #anxiety. #Mindfulness‐based #stress reduction (MBSR) is a programme that aims

Featured Review: Experiences and perceptions of cash transfers for health.

The aim of this Cochrane qualitative evidence synthesis was to explore how people receiving health-related conditional or unconditional cash transfers experienced them. We an

Cochrane is delighted to announce the availability of #RevManWeb, its popular, web-based systematic-review production software, to the wider academic community beyond #Cochrane – to support #evidencesynthesis development and evidence-based medi

Is #methylphenidate an effective treatment for children and adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (#adhd) and does it cause unwanted effects?

Read the updated #systematicreview here: https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD009885.pub3

Preventing obesity in children - sixth Cochrane review update published today

May 20 Preventing obesity in children - sixth Cochrane review update published today

New Cochrane review finds promising evidence on the benefits of psychological therapy for aged care residents – one of Australia’s highest risk groups for depression

Mar 20 New Cochrane review finds promising evidence on the benefits of psychological therapy for aged care residents – one of Australia’s highest risk groups for depression